Introduction

Abstract

Abstract South Asia has been one of the focal points for rethinking the forms that West ern knowledge of non-Western civilizations has taken. The “scientific” study of “traditional” South Asian texts, beginning with the Vedas—once thought to be the oldest extant texts in an Indo-European language—has been central to the colonial construction of India as a civilization and to the nationalist project of making India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal into “modern” independent nations.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 34 citations exist upstream.